News and events

 Servas Britain - weekend in Bilberry Hill 

Our Annual General Meeting each year is part of a weekend event, which includes a keynote speaker, presentations andSpeaker from Medecins Sans Frontieres workshops and social Bilberry Hill Centreactivities. This year the weekend was at the Bilberry Hill Centre, in the Lickey Hills country park near Birmingham.

As well as the formal AGM on Saturday afternoon, the weekend offered the chance to attend workshops on peace and interviewing, a presentation on the development of the Servas On-Line system and a lively talk by a representative of Médecins Sans Frontières. 

In the lovely weather that weekend, many of us also went for a late afternoon walk in the country park.
 
                                              Servas Britain Deputy Secretary with peace banner  Servas Britain Regional Co-ordinators meeting  Servas Britain AGM - a general view  Walking in Lickey Hills country park.
                                                                

Events in Servas Britain

We hold social events for hosts and travellers throughout the year in all parts of the UK; there are also regular European events.

Meet Servas friends in London every month

Every month Servas hosts and travellers meet informally in a pub in central London. Come and meet us and find out more about Servas Britain!

Servas London meeting in 'Pontefract Castle' Place: Pontefract Castle pub (upstairs - usually the top level). The pub is non-smoking and food is available. It's on the corner of James Street and Wigmore Street, off Oxford Street. Nearest underground station - Bond Street (see map).
Time: From 6.30-8.30pm, the first Monday of each month.

For further information phone 00 44 (0)20-8444 7778

Servas Britain newsletter

Each year Servas Britain publishes four newsletters, with a mix of travel articles, information about Servas in Britain and other countries, and details of social events. They are issued free to our hosts and to travellers who join Servas in Britain. Follow these links to see our latest news-sheet (March 2010) and newsletter (July 2010). The next news-sheet will be published in September 2010.

International Servas events

In September 2009, Servas held its international conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina. For more details see the Servas International website and the report by our National Secretary in our November 2009 newsletter. The next international conference will be in 2012 - venue to be confirmed.

Servas and travel in South America

In 2008, Servas was featured in a series of articles in the Guardian newspaper by journalist Vicky Baker, who wrote about her experience of travelling for three months in South America using different hospitality networks. If you missed these, you can read the whole series on the Guardian's website.

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